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From Kate Barnes   18 April 1881

Mrs. S. M. Rust, Pres’t. Mrs. A. D. Fairbanks, Treas. | " Mrs Still, Vice-Pres’t. " Kate Barnes, Sec’y. | The Syracuse Botanical Club, | Syracuse, N. Y.

April 18th. 1881

Mr Darwin

Dear Sir

I am desired by the Syracuse Botanical Club to announce to you. that you have been unanimously elected by said Club, an Honorary and Corresponding member.1 I fear that one having such an immense correspondence, and such great demands upon your valuable time, will not have much time to bestow upon so small a Club. Still anything you may care to communicate to us. will be esteemed as a great favour.

Asking leniency for taking up your valuable time

I am yours sincerely | Kate S. Barnes |—Secy

1
CD had first heard about this women’s club in the letter from F. J. Myers, 20 January 1881. Barnes had been elected corresponding secretary of the club in place of Myers on 23 March 1881 (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 8 (1881): 60).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13125,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13125